Gas Station Attendant

That's my new chosen vocation. Why? Because being shot at for $50 CDN from the till seems less stressful.

Work stinks. I know, a particularly inventive and unique thought. I am quite tired of being asked to support functions I have not been trained for. My biggest fear is that through the process of trial and error I'm going to destroy something we can't recover. For that matter, I may already have done that, and just be blissfully unaware.

Oh bother.

Blender 3d

I can not say enough good things about this tool. I totally blew off another full evening of me time making 3d stuff. And by the end of the night I was making an object that was almost recognizable as what I intended.

It is going to be a while before anything I make sees the light of day, however. What I have decided though, is that it is much easier to transform a 2D picture into something 3D than to invent a 3D object. This is OK because I have a ton of old art just kicking around from all of those versions of G.E.

WoW BC

Oh, and if you are living under a rock and never read anything other than my blog (uh, thanks, I guess) ... World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is on store shelves today.


I hope you saved some vacation days...

Eye Strain

I just spent a crazy evening squeezing stuff into the black hole known as my brain. But before I get into that - High school Quest Update!

(Or, if this was WoW, you would be looking at ? ) He actually got back to me. That's kind of a first in years. Not sure what I'll do next year. Meh. (I mean "bah-duhm" level up.)

But back to the front. I just spent my whole evening learning stuff about Blender 3d. Which is more learning in my free time than I've done in a very,very long time.

Blender is a gnu public license 3d modeler/rendering animator. It's supposedly on the order of 3dMax or Lightwave, but free. It's certainly super powerful, and it is free. It also seems very stable, and has a TINY 8 Mb download. And it's free. I'm not used to thinking in an X shell format at home, but it sure is cool how easy it was to model simple stuff. Well, OK, nothing I would actually let see the light of day, but soon, maybe. Did I mention it was free?

Now if I could just distract the kids long enough to get some practice in...